I Watch 3 Episodes of Mind Field With Our Experts & Researchers
To celebrate, I asked a group of colleagues who worked with me on the series to sit down at Vsauce HQ and watch through three entire episodes. We go behind the scenes, elaborate on topics in the episodes, and dig in to what impact working on Mind Field has had on their current research.
GUESTS:
Samuel Veissière, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Elisabeth de Kleer
Producer/Director
Daniel Toker
Neuroscience PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
Judy Ho, PhD, ABPP
Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychologist
WATCH MIND FIELD:
SEASON ONE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKdEhx-dD4&list=PLZRRxQcaEjA4qyEuYfAMCazlL0vQDkIj2
SEASON TWO:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sl5KJ69qiA&list=PLZRRxQcaEjA7wmh3Z6EQuOK9fm1CqnJCI
SEASON THREE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkjUjcZid0&list=PLZRRxQcaEjA7LX19uAySGlc9hmprBxfEP
2:41 – Placebos
4:50 – Emotional valence and colors
5:06 – Color and attentional bias
8:26 – Nonspecific effects
8:59 – Specific vs nonspecific effects
10:22 – Nonverbal people/animals and placebo effects
16:23 – Placebo studies
16:48 – Neuroenchantment
17:24 – Ethics of placebo studies
20:41 – Adaptive self-deception
22:28 – Transitional objects
22:59 – Accessory-assisted suggestion
27:07 – Neuroenchantment and genetic testing
39:23 – Placebo mind-reading experiment
47:15 – Placebo thought-implantation experiment
48:38 – Hypnosis
50:57 – Hypnotic susceptibility
51:52 – Placebo effect in animals
1:00:26 – Replication crisis in psychology
1:02:50 – Placebo psychedelics
1:05:15 – Tulpamancy and Tulpamancers
1:08:15 – Terror Management Theory
01:08:21 – Mortality salience
1:19:40 – Experimental ethics
1:43:10 – Cryonics
1:44:52 – Cryogenic preservation
1:55:00 – Socioeconomics of cryogenic preservation
2:12:48 – Digital immortality
2:17:09 – Learning and memory
2:17:24 – Hippocampus
2:18:13 – Video games and the brain
2:21:00 – How MRIs work
2:25:58 – Life-sized maze
2:34:16 – Blab droid
2:36:22 – Empathy towards machines
2:37:49 – Anthropomorphism
2:45:16 – Sleep and hippocampus memory retention
2:46:36 – Sleep and memory
2:49:08 - Effect of video games on memory
2:53:27 – Memory palaces
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